Writing Nearby
July 6, 2020
Cathy Park Hong’s essay collection Minor Feelings presents a fraught and considerate attempt to say what it means to be Asian American today.
Jina Moore
Four Storytellers Tackle Climate Change
October 15, 2019
Experts in art, writing, journalism, and policy discuss why climate change is the biggest story of our time.
Terese Svoboda: Writing the Desert
May 14, 2019
The author and translator on the changing American region that shaped her thinking.
Five Writers on Climate Change and Popular Culture
April 23, 2019
Five contemporary writers and critics discuss how climate change is represented in novels, film, comic books, and even in the works of Plato.
David Wallace-Wells: “We Will Need to Learn How to Navigate a New World with New Rules”
March 8, 2019
The provocative journalist on why we should stop speculating about the “threshold of catastrophe,” and instead ask ourselves “How bad are we going to let it get?”
Climate Fiction: A Special Issue
March 4, 2019
We've known for years about climate change, but only 54% of Americans think it's a "serious issue." That's why, says guest fiction editor Amy Brady, we need to read climate fiction.
Lauren Groff: Stories Should Ask Difficult Questions
February 6, 2019
Watch the video of our talk with Lauren Groff to hear her discuss climate change and her writing process.
Roy Scranton: Some New Future Will Emerge
July 10, 2018
The author and Army veteran on climate change, war, and "the radical transformation of the basic structures of our existence."